In the Shadows of Apartheid: Social Malady and Poetry Therapy in Ndlovu’s Poetry
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Malika Lueen Ndlovu, a South African woman poet, has demonstrated a determined sense of commitment to confront the social absurdities of her society through her literary creations. Her works illustrate the philosophy of arts for life’s sake. Her creative motto is “creativity for healing”. It is in this light that this paper conceives social disorders as malady and poetry as therapy in relation to the wellbeing of the society. Two of Ndlovu’s poetry anthologies of poems were purposively selected to because of their thematic and aesthetic relevance to the study. They are Born in Africa But (2000) and Truth is Both Spirit and Flesh (2008). These texts present a corpus of poetry that portrays the society as a sick body whose illness is diagnosed by the poet’s stethoscopic pen to unveil unhealthy practices and restore sanity to the sick society. The texts also present the poet as a “social physician”. Through these texts, Ndlovu diagnosed gender and psychological maladies of post-Apartheid South Africa while exposing this putrefaction to mobilise social actions for its correction.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".